{{Short description|American-born Canadian lichenologist and botanist}} {{Infobox scientist | name = Irwin M. Brodo | image = Irwin Brodo.png | image_caption = Brodo in [[Maine]] on 2 September 2001, receiving the first copy of ''Lichens of North America'' | caption = | alt = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1935|11|7|df=y}} | birth_place = | death_date = | death_place = | nationality = | resting_place = | fields = Lichenology | workplaces = [[Canadian Museum of Nature]] | alma_mater = [[City College of New York|City College]]; [[Cornell University]]; [[Michigan State University]] | author_abbrev_bot = Brodo<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ipni.org/a/16567-1 |title=Brodo, Irwin Murray (1935–) |publisher=[[International Plant Names Index]] |access-date=29 September 2024}}</ref> }}
'''Irwin Murray Brodo''' (born November 7, 1935 in New York City) is an [[emeritus]] scientist at the [[Canadian Museum of Nature]], in [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada. He is an authority on the identification and biology of [[lichens]].
==Early life and education==
Brodo grew up in the [[Bronx]] and attended [[City College of New York|City College]] in [[Manhattan]] as an undergraduate.<ref name="Weber et al. 2015"/> He went on to do his [[Postgraduate education|graduate studies]] at [[Columbia University]], and received a [[master's degree]] from [[Cornell University]]. He earned a [[Ph.D.]] in lichenology under the supervision of [[Henry Imshaug]] at [[Michigan State University]].<ref name="IAL Acharius Medallists: Brodo"/>
==Career and research==
In 1965, Brodo was hired by the National Museum of Canada (now the [[Canadian Museum of Nature]]), where he continues to work as a research scientist emeritus. Over his career, he has built the lichen collection (CANL) into one of the best in North America.<ref name="Weber et al. 2015"/> His research includes in-depth studies on challenging genera such as ''[[Bryoria]]'', ''[[Lecanora]]'', and ''[[Ochrolechia]]''. His 1968 work on the lichens of [[Long Island]] and the effects of [[air pollutant]]s was pioneering in the field.<ref name="Weber et al. 2015"/>
In 1970, Brodo started to edit the [[exsiccata]] series ''Lichenes Canadenses exsiccati''.<ref>{{cite web |title=Lichenes Canadenses exsiccati: IndExs ExsiccataID=760360419 |website=IndExs – Index of Exsiccatae |publisher=Botanische Staatssammlung München |url=https://www.botanischestaatssammlung.de/DatabaseClients/IndExs/Exsiccatae_IndExs_Details.jsp?ExsiccataID=760360419 |access-date=16 July 2024}}</ref>
==Selected publications==
Brodo's list of publications includes approximately 100 scientific articles, 8 popular articles, 22 reviews and 6 editorials and obituaries. One of his great achievements was the publication in 2001 of the 795 page book, ''[[Lichens of North America]]'' with high-quality photographs of lichens taken by Sylvia Sharnoff and [[Stephen Sharnoff]]. It won the 2002 [[National Outdoor Book Award]] (Nature Guidebook).<ref name="NOBA 2002"/> In 2016, he produced ''Keys to Lichens of North America: Revised and Expanded'', a spiral-bound workbook of over 400 pages including keys to 2045 species.<ref name="Weber et al. 2015"/>
==Teaching and mentorship==
Brodo has taught at [[Université Laval]] and the [[University of Alaska]], and he also supervised [[master's degree|master's]] students at the [[University of Ottawa]] and [[Carleton University]].<ref name="Carleton University"/> He has also given numerous introductory workshops, including a popular field-course on crustose lichens at the Eagle Hill Institute in coastal [[Maine]].<ref name="Weber et al. 2015"/>
==Professional Leadership==
Brodo has held several leadership positions in professional organizations. He served as President of the [[International Association for Lichenology]] for a four-year term and President of the [[American Bryological and Lichenological Society]] for a two-year term.<ref name="Weber et al. 2015"/>
He has also been involved in public service, including work with the [[Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club]] and the Ottawa-Hull chapter of the [[Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society]].<ref name="Weber et al. 2015"/>
==Honors and awards==
Brodo has received numerous honors throughout his career. In 1994, he was honored with an [[Acharius Medal]] presented to him by the [[International Association for Lichenology]].<ref name="IAL Acharius Medallists: Brodo"/> In 1993, Brodo was awarded the Mary E. Elliot Service Award for his meritorious service to the [[Canadian Botanical Association]]<ref name="ILN 1994"/> — and in 2003, for lifetime achievement, the association's George Lawson Medal.<ref>{{cite web|title=Past Recipients of the Lawson Medal|website=Canadian Botanical Association/L'Association Botanique du Canada|url=https://www.cba-abc.ca/awards/the-lawson-medal/past-recipients-of-the-lawson-medal}}</ref> In 2013, Brodo was presented with an [[honorary doctorate]] from Carleton University, "in recognition of his distinguished career in lichenology and scientific leadership in the international biosystematics community".<ref name="Carleton University"/>
==Eponyms==
A lichen genus and several lichen [[taxon|taxa]] have been named to honor Brodo. These [[eponym]]s include: *''[[Brodoa]]'' {{small|Goward (1987)}};<ref name="Goward 1986"/> ''[[Bactrospora brodoi]]'' {{small|Egea & Torrente (1993)}}<ref name="Egea & Torrente 1993"/> ''[[Lecanora brodoana]]'' {{small|Lumbsch & T.Nash (1995)}};<ref name="Lumbsch & Nash 1995"/> ''[[Megalaria brodoana]]'' {{small|S.Ekman & Tønsberg (1996)}};<ref name="Ekman et al. 1996"/> [[Bryoria trichodes|''Bryoria trichodes'' subsp. ''brodoana'']] {{small|Bystr. & Fabiszewski (1998)}};<ref name="Bystrek & Fabiszewski 1998"/> ''[[Lecidea brodoana]]'' {{small|Hertel & Leuckert (2004)}};<ref name="Nash et al. 2004"/> ''[[Ochrolechia brodoi]]'' {{small|Kukwa (2011)}};<ref name="Kukwa 2011"/> ''[[Lepraria brodoi]]'' {{small|Lendemer & Tønsberg (2014)}};<ref name="Lendemer & Tønsberg 2014"/> ''[[Rinodina brodoana]]'' {{small|Sheard, Lendemer & E.A.Tripp (2014)}};<ref name="Lendemer et al. 2014"/> ''[[Acarospora brodoana]]'' {{small|K.Knudsen, Kocourk. & M.Westb. (2016)}};<ref name="Knudsen et al. 2016"/> ''[[Alectoria brodoana]]'' {{small|Essl. (2016)}};<ref name="Esslinger 2016"/> ''[[Bryoria irwinii]]'' {{small|Goward & Myllys (2016)}};<ref name="Myllys et al. 2016"/> and ''[[Catinaria brodoana]]'' {{small|R.C.Harris & W.R.Buck (2016)}}.<ref name="Lendemer et al. 2016"/>
==See also== * [[:Category:Taxa named by Irwin Brodo]]
==References== {{Reflist|colwidth=30em|refs=
<ref name="Bystrek & Fabiszewski 1998">{{cite journal |last1=Bystrek |first1=Jan |last2=Fabiszewski |first2=Jerzy |year=1998 |title=Materials to North American lichen flora |journal=Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae |volume=67 |issue=1 |pages=87–93 |doi=10.5586/asbp.1998.012 |url=https://pbsociety.org.pl/journals/index.php/asbp/article/view/asbp.1998.012/612|doi-access=free }}</ref>
<ref name="Carleton University">{{cite web |title=Carleton Presents Renowned Lichenologist With Honorary Doctorate |url=https://newsroom.carleton.ca/archives/2013/06/11/carleton-presents-renowned-lichenologist-with-honorary-doctorate-2/ |publisher=[[Carleton University]] |date=11 June 2013 |access-date=16 January 2021}}</ref>
<ref name="Ekman et al. 1996">{{cite journal |last1=Ekman |first1=Stefan |last2=Tønsberg |first2=Tor |last3=Tonsberg |first3=Tor |title=A new species of ''Megalaria'' from the North American west coast, and notes on the generic circumscription |journal=The Bryologist |volume=99 |issue=1 |year=1996 |doi=10.2307/3244435 |pages=34–40}}</ref>
<ref name="Egea & Torrente 1993">{{cite journal |last1=Egea |first1=J. M. |last2=Torrente |first2=P. |title=The lichen genus ''Bactrospora'' |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=25 |issue=3 |year=2007 |pages=211–255 |doi=10.1006/lich.1993.1028}}</ref>
<ref name="Esslinger 2016">{{cite book |last=Esslinger |first=T.L. |year=2016 |chapter=''Alectoria'' in Mexico |editor-last1=Herrera-Campos |editor-first1=Maria |editor-last2=Pérez-Pérez |editor-first2=Rosa Emilia |editor-last3=Nash |editor-first3=Thomas H. III |title=Lichens of Mexico. The Parmeliaceae – Keys, distribution and specimen descriptions |series=Bibliotheca Lichenologica |volume=110 |publisher=J. Cramer |location=Stuttgart |pages=69–80 |isbn=978-3-443-58089-6}}</ref>
<ref name="Goward 1986">{{cite journal |last=Goward |first=Trevor |title=''Brodoa'', a new lichen genus in the Parmeliaceae |journal=Bryologist |volume=89 |issue=3 |year=1986 |pages=219–223 |doi=10.2307/3243288 |jstor=3243288}}</ref>
<ref name="IAL Acharius Medallists: Brodo">{{cite web |authorlink=Ingvar Kärnefelt |last1=Kärnefelt |first1=Ingvar |title=Acharius Medallists: Irwin M. Brodo |date=19 August 1994 |publisher=[[International Association for Lichenology]] |url=http://www.lichenology.org/Awards/Acharius_Brodo.html |access-date=10 January 2021 |archive-date=2 April 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160402175123/http://www.lichenology.org/Awards/Acharius_Brodo.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref name="ILN 1994">{{cite journal |title=Award for Irwin Brodo |year=1994 |journal=International Lichenological Newsletter |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=13–14 |url=http://www.lichenology.org/Publications/ILN/ILN_27_1.pdf |access-date=2022-04-28 |archive-date=2021-07-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210719185546/http://www.lichenology.org/Publications/ILN/ILN_27_1.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
<ref name="Knudsen et al. 2016">{{cite journal |last1=Knudsen |first1=Kerry |last2=Kocourková |first2=Jana |last3=Westberg |first3=Martin |last4=Wheeler |first4=Tim |title=Two new species of Acarosporaceae from North America with carbonized epihymenial accretions |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=48 |issue=5 |year=2016 |doi=10.1017/s0024282916000256 |pages=347–354}}</ref>
<ref name="Kukwa 2011">{{cite book |last=Kukwa |first=Martin |year=2011 |title=The lichen genus ''Ochrolechia'' in Europe |publisher=Fundacja Rozwoju Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego |location=Gdańsk |isbn=978-8375311709 |page=100}}</ref>
<ref name="Lendemer & Tønsberg 2014">{{cite journal |last1=Lendemer |first1=J.C. |last2=Tønsberg |first2=T. |year=2014 |title=''Lepraria brodoi'' (Stereocaulaceae, Lichenized Ascomycetes), a new species from the temperate rainforests of western Canada and southeastern Alaska, U.S.A. |journal=Opuscula Philolichenum |volume=13 |pages=20–25}}</ref>
<ref name="Lendemer et al. 2016">{{cite journal |last1=Lendemer |first1=James C. |last2=Buck |first2=William R. |last3=Harris |first3=Richard C. |title=Two new host-specific hepaticolous species of ''Catinaria'' (Ramalinaceae) |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=48 |issue=5 |year=2016 |doi=10.1017/s0024282916000438 |pages=441–449}}</ref>
<ref name="Lumbsch & Nash 1995">{{cite journal |authorlink1=Helge Thorsten Lumbsch |last1=Lumbsch |first1=H. Thorsten |authorlink2=Thomas Hawkes Nash III |last2=Nash |first2=Thomas H. |title=New species and new records of ''Lecanora'' s.str. from Western North America |journal=The Bryologist |volume=98 |issue=3 |year=1995 |pages=398–401 |jstor=3243379 |doi=10.2307/3243379}}</ref>
<ref name="Myllys et al. 2016">{{cite journal |last1=Myllys |first1=Leena |last2=Velmala |first2=Saara |last3=Pino-Bodas |first3=Raquel |last4=Goward |first4=Trevor |title=New species in ''Bryoria'' (Parmeliaceae, Lecanoromycetes) from north-west North America |journal=The Lichenologist |volume=48 |issue=5 |year=2016 |pages=355–365 |doi=10.1017/S0024282916000268}}</ref>
<ref name="Nash et al. 2004">{{cite book |last1=Nash |first1=T. H. III |last2=Ryan |first2=B. D. |last3=Diederich |first3=P. |last4=Gries |first4=C. |last5=Bungartz |first5=F. |year=2004 |title=Lichen flora of the greater Sonoran Desert region |volume=2 |page=290 |publisher=Lichens Unlimited |isbn=978-0-9716759-1-9}}</ref>
<ref name="NOBA 2002">{{cite web |last1=Watters |first1=Ron |title=Winners of the 2002 National Outdoor Book Awards |publisher=[[National Outdoor Book Awards]] |url=http://www.noba-web.org/books02.htm |access-date=10 January 2021}}</ref>
<ref name="Lendemer et al. 2014">{{cite journal |last1=Lendemer |first1=James C. |last2=Tripp |first2=Erin A. |last3=Sheard |first3=John |title=A review of ''Rinodina''(Physciaceae) in Great Smoky Mountains National Park highlights the growing significance of this “island of biodiversity” in eastern North America |journal=The Bryologist |volume=117 |issue=3 |year=2014 |doi=10.1639/0007-2745-117.3.259 |pages=259–281}}</ref>
<ref name="Weber et al. 2015">{{cite journal |last1=Weber |first1=Evi |last2=Lutzoni |first2=François |last3=Clayden |first3=Stephen |last4=Lendemer |first4=James |last5=Goward |first5=Trevor |last6=Hawksworth |first6=David L. |last7=Verkley |first7=Gerard |last8=Robert |first8=Vincent |year=2015 |title=Awards and Personalia |journal=IMA Fungus |volume=6 |pages=A51–A55 |doi=10.1007/BF03449353 |doi-access=free}}</ref>
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